VFP104 Evansville Announces Recipients of Peaceful Town Art Competition

On Tuesday, November 10, Veterans For Peace in Evansville will award prizes to ten young artists whose work has earned recognition in the Peaceful Towns art competition. The competition is sponsored by Stephanie Terry, mayor of Evansville, in cooperation with Veterans For Peace Chapter 104 and Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. Peaceful Towns is an annual project of Mayors for Peace, an international coalition of 8,627 cities calling for an end to nuclear weapons worldwide. Evansville joined the coalition in November 2022; this is the first year the city has taken part in the art competition, which is open to children ages 6 to 15 who live in Evansville or attend school in Vanderburgh County.

Evansville’s Central Library is hosting the reception and awards presentation in its READ Center at 5:30 pm. Forty-five young people submitted their artwork, prompted to envision “what peace means to you.” The judges who evaluated the entries are: Jon Michael Siau, retired art instructor, EVSC; Amy Ubelhor, director of university creative and print, USI; and Andrea Adams, assistant librarian in arts programming, EVPL. VFP 104 representatives John Michael O’Leary (associate member) and Mary Allen (veteran member) will present monetary awards to the top five artists in each age category, 6 to 10 and 11 to 15. The reception and awards presentation are open to the public.

Winning Entries Ages 6 to 10

Winning Entries Ages 11 to 15